Wilkerson focused the book on three characters, Ida Mae Brandon Gladney, George Swanson Starling, and Robert Joseph Pershing Foster. ... Robert Foster of Louisiana was the son of middle class parents. ... Foster did not want to be stuck in the South delivering Sharecroppers babies, so he left Louisiana and headed to California, where he gained prosperity and eventually became one of Los Angeles' finest surgeons. ... Robert Foster, however had a different experience as he gained success in his life as a surgeon in California. ... Isabel Wilkerson transformed the journey of the Gladney'...

• Word Count: 845
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

Shaara also wrote Robert E. ... The most important characters in the book are all generals, such as: Robert E. ... He finds them and counts the troops and reports to General Robert E. ... Longstreet unwillingly attacks the Union's left flank and Chamberlain defends the Union's extreme left flank against the assault, and Union wins. ...

• Word Count: 1226
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

Fights kept erupting over displays of the rebel flag, over the relevancy of states' rights, over a statue of Arthur Ashe slated to go up beside Robert E. ... There is a heated debate about these statues: whether should they be pulled down in honor of Black-equality and political power in the contemporary city or left as historical markers. ... Among them, Robert Lee Hodge is the most colorful character. Robert esteemed in re-enacting circles for his impression of a bloated corpse: ''His belly swelled grotesquely, his hands curled, his cheeks puffed out, his mouth contorted in a ...

• Word Count: 2116
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

This action would wage in a bloody four year war that would end with the surrender of General Robert E. ... At the close of the American Civil war, the United States was left to face the problem of re-admitting the southern states into the union. ...

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It all started with the Missouri Compromise of 1820, which was enacted by Congress to put limits on the spread of slavery in what was left of the Louisiana Purchase. ... Senator Steven Douglas supported this Act and wrote in popular sovereignty into the bill, which left the issue of slavery up to the people who lived in the territories and their appointed representatives. ... Beauregard demanded that Major Robert Anderson, in charge of Fort Sumter, surrender. ...

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Slidell left Mexico City for a town a few miles away and Herrera sent troops to the Rio Grande to confront the Americans. ... In the spring of 1865, Robert E. ... The result of the Civil War left many in the South bitter toward the integration of African Americans into society. ... In December of 1991, two years after President Reagan left office, the Cold War ended when the Soviet Union was dissolved. ...

• Word Count: 1002
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

Forrest stated the Klan had become to violent and that was why he left. ... This took place on September 15, 1963 and Robert Chambliss;the man responsible for the 4 girls death was not convicted until 1977. ...

• Word Count: 638
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• Grade Level: High School

Sumter by the Southern states and lasted until General Robert E Lee surrendered his southern troops at Appomattox Court House in Virginia on April 9, 1865. ... Anti-slavery advocates demanded that slavery be left out of the new territories. ...

• Word Count: 798
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

It was necessary for the North to parent southern states after the war, because the South was left very unstable and the exploitation of free-slave labor was no longer an applicable tool for the South. ... It is also been proven that the Klu Klux Klan target colored political leaders and wealthy landowners as a way to instill fear in those that opposed their views (Gorn, Roberts, Bihartz - p.9). ...

• Word Count: 1139
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

After the surrender of the Confederacy to the Union, even General Robert E. ... Johnson was a Southerner and a Democrat, but he never left his seat in the U.S. ... It seems he left out some things, and later told a little information within the three years before his trial. ... President Andrew Johnson left office when his term ended in 1869 with the South despising him and Northern Republicans hating him for his views against Negroes. ...

• Word Count: 1982
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

The Inevitable Civil War There have been many publications concerning the Civil War, with writers trying to prove a point in their respective works. In this analysis to follow, the Union/Confederate ambitions and ways of fulfillment depict a direct correlation between themselves to the Civil War...

• Word Count: 1554
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School